God alone is the one who retains The Final Say.

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1. 0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
2. 0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
3. 0:06This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
4. 0:11It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite.
5. 0:15Delivery people out of the bondage of mainstream media.
6. 0:18And the philosophies of this world.
7. 0:20God has called you and me to be his ambassador.
8. 0:24Even in this dark moment.
9. 0:26Let's not miss our moment.
10. 0:28and now the Hamilton Corner.
11. 0:33Good evening everyone, welcome to the Hamilton Corner here on American Family Radio Broadcasting.
12. 0:39Once again from Nashville, Tennessee at the beautiful Opry Land Hotel and Convention Center.
13. 0:46You probably have noticed it by now, but that we have a setup both in a broadcast suite
14. 0:53And we have a broadcast booth from the exhibit hall,
15. 0:59and you'll probably see and hear programs from both locations.
16. 1:04You certainly will hear that from my show.
17. 1:06As you stay tuned in, you'll see the differences
18. 1:08and the presentations there.
19. 1:10It's been an amazing time here so far.
20. 1:12There will be a celebration of this evening celebrating America's 250th anniversary
21. 1:21in light of the Declaration of Independence being signed 250 years ago as of July 4th this year.
22. 1:27And you guys know we've talked about the cycle of nations and what the 250th year has meant
23. 1:33for nations in times past and the question that I've been presenting for us, which way will we go?
24. 1:40Will we follow the historical trajectory or will we as a nation be and do what we have been
25. 1:47and have done throughout our nation's history and bucking convention, you know, the idea
26. 1:54of this experiment in individual liberty, having the contrast, we've talked about it on this show
27. 1:59before, that the preamble to our Constitution was a radical invention in the late 18th century,
28. 2:06instead of beginning with we the state or with we the monarch, it begins with we the people,
29. 2:12which is a radical, radical departure from what existed at the time, even departing from
30. 2:17our own Articles of Confederation. I've talked to you guys about the debate that Patrick Henry
31. 2:23had with the Virginia Governor Edmund Randolph when he said that his Patrick Henry was concerned
32. 2:30that the reference to either people being an indication that there's an effort to overwhelm
33. 2:35states authority and we've talked before about who has rights and who has privileges or who has
34. 2:43enumerated rights delegated to them and the fact is that the bears of God's image are the ones who
35. 2:50have been granted inalienable rights and governments, I'm sorry, in governments, derive their just power
36. 2:57to operate from the consent of the governed. So as a result, the individuals have inalienable rights,
37. 3:04States and our national government have enumerated or delegated privileges. All right, we've talked
38. 3:11about that or enumerated that delegation have that delegation of authority has been has been made by
39. 3:16the people to the states and the government. So that led Governor Emmon Randolph to say that the
40. 3:21reference to we the people in our preamble was a right articulation as to who exactly has the
41. 3:26authority to ratify our Constitution, which is her people. So we've talked about that in times past
42. 3:33And so tonight will be a celebration of that.
43. 3:35There are several people, many of our friends.
44. 3:37The Bartons will be participating.
45. 3:39David Barton, Tim Barton, and the event will include a keynote address from the Secretary
46. 3:44of War, Pete Hegcess.
47. 3:45So all of that is set to happen actually as soon as I get off the air this evening.
48. 3:50But at this very moment, many of you, if not most of you, are making your transition from
49. 3:54your part-time jobs where you generate an income to your full-time jobs where you cultivate
50. 3:58an outcome.
51. 3:59do so, I want to remind you to do so with intentionality, understanding the
52. 4:04primacy that God places on the family. You know, I was having a conversation
53. 4:08with another brother earlier today and it saddens me that it seems that wicked
54. 4:14people tend to understand how important it is to access the hearts and minds of
55. 4:19young people. As Vladimir Lenin who said, if you let me have all the four-year-olds
56. 4:23and allow me to train all the four-year-olds will rule the world in one
57. 4:27generation. That's what Linen said. You know, over and over. Hitler said similar
58. 4:31things. Wicke people all along and said similar things. Stalin said similar things.
59. 4:35It goes over and over and over. But it's unfortunate. It seems that the body of
60. 4:39Christ has got to slow on the uptick when it comes to that. But the simple fact is
61. 4:43that the first human institution that God established was the family with the
62. 4:46marriage at the center. God did that. That's not my opinion. That's not my
63. 4:50preference. That's what God did. Having the wherewithal to introduce human
64. 4:54history in any way he sought before you got to modern iterations of civil
65. 4:58government before before you got to even the New Testament church the first
66. 5:04institution that God established was the family and so if we want to see our
67. 5:09nation transformed we cannot neglect the family the family cannot be pushed to
68. 5:14the margins of our conversation the family must be central we must re-enfranchised
69. 5:19parents, re-enfranchised grandparents, re-enfranchised great grandparents to understand you not only
70. 5:26have a role in God's Kingdom, you have a central role to play.
71. 5:30You have a vibrant vital role to play.
72. 5:33The concept of retirement is not a biblical concept.
73. 5:37I'm not saying you have to stay working at a job.
74. 5:39You worked there 30 years, 40 years now you got to work another 30-foot.
75. 5:41I'm not saying that.
76. 5:42What I'm talking about is the mindset and the heart condition.
77. 5:45In the body of Christ, we don't retire.
78. 5:47We refire.
79. 5:48Sometimes our more seasoned saints have more resources than they've ever had in their lifetimes
80. 5:53and have more time available than they've ever had in their lifetimes.
81. 5:56Why not take full advantage of that?
82. 5:59To utilize that life station for the glory of the King, for the advancement of the body
83. 6:04of Christ, for the expansion of God's kingdom.
84. 6:07And also understand it in the body of Christ, this intergenerational linkage is divinely designed.
85. 6:12That's why we have Scripture that tells us what the older men are supposed to do with
86. 6:16the younger men.
87. 6:17older women, these are the younger women.
88. 6:19The intergenerational linkage.
89. 6:21I've referred to numerous times that you have Moses, God's man,
90. 6:25the deliverer for the nation of Israel who led the people of Israel,
91. 6:28pillar of cloud by day, pillar of fire by night, Red Sea walking through on dry ground.
92. 6:32But he came to a juncture where he simply was talking about what God has done and
93. 6:36his father-in-law, Jethro, listen and say, whoa, slow down Mo.
94. 6:41The thing that you are doing is not wise.
95. 6:44And I often reflect on this, this vaunted position
96. 6:46that Moses has in God's economy, he stops,
97. 6:50and he listens to his father-in-law.
98. 6:52And you'll notice in the text, you don't see any disagreement
99. 6:55expressed by Moses, you don't see any diatribe offered
100. 6:59by Moses, you see Moses humbly implementing
101. 7:02the counsel he received from his father-in-law.
102. 7:04This is a life stage where Moses himself
103. 7:07is upwards of 80 years old at this juncture.
104. 7:09Yet, in spite, or should I say, in light of his experience
105. 7:13the Lord, His revelation from the Lord, His position in God's economy, He still had the
106. 7:18wherewithal to humble Himself and He needed His Father-in-law's counsel. Guys, we need the same
107. 7:23in our day to day. We have to reject worldly efforts to reform our family, the family of God,
108. 7:29instead allow God's word to shape where we stand and we engage from that perspective. And again,
109. 7:35I reflect on what kind of man must Jethro have been for Moses being who he was to be willing to listen
110. 7:41to Jethro. I often ponder that and I pray Lord I want to be the quality of man at that
111. 7:47life stage where my sons and sons and laws and and grand sons and granddaughters and daughters
112. 7:54and daughters and laws will be willing to hear me out as I age that I will live a life
113. 7:58worthy of being given ear to and that I will live an example that will provoke that kind
114. 8:03of willingness to give ear to what God is doing. Jethro didn't try to take over Moses's
115. 8:07job, then try to say, no, let me do it. No, no, he just offered counsel. And the counsel from
116. 8:11Jethro to Moses actually set the foundation for our, you know, Article III judiciary with
117. 8:16the appellate process. But we got to have a reformed mindset in this regard and refuse
118. 8:21to allow the world to tell us what we should be about. No, the Lord has already given us
119. 8:25our marching orders and we will respond according to what he has instructed us to do. All right,
120. 8:31to the Word of God, we go. And I want to encourage you with this and to remind you that this
121. 8:37This is the quality of God that we serve and we still serve to this day.
122. 8:40We're going to begin the program in 2 Kings 7 verses 3 through 7.
123. 8:472 Kings 7 verses 3 through 7 for context purposes.
124. 8:53This is the portion of scripture where Elisha is serving as a prominent prophet in the nation
125. 8:59of Israel and a benedad leading the Syrians or the Arab Mayans have laid siege to Samaria
126. 9:06And this is what the word of God said.
127. 9:08Second Kings chapter seven, verses three through seven.
128. 9:12Now there were four leopards men at the entrance of the gate.
129. 9:17And they said to one another, why do we sit here?
130. 9:20Until we die.
131. 9:22If we say we will enter the city, then the famine is in the city.
132. 9:27And we will die there.
133. 9:28And if we sit here, we die also.
134. 9:32Now therefore come and let us go over to the camp
135. 9:36of the Aramaicians.
136. 9:37If they spare us, we will live.
137. 9:40And if they kill us, we will but die.
138. 9:43They arose at twilight to go to the camp of the airmanes.
139. 9:47And when they came to the outskirts
140. 9:49of the camp of the airmanes, behold, there was no one there.
141. 9:56For the Lord had caused the army of the airmanes
142. 9:58to hear a sound of chariots and a sound of horses,
143. 10:04even the sound of a great army so that they said to one
144. 10:08another, behold, the King of Israel has hired against us, the kings of the
145. 10:12Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to come upon us. Now to have a clarity,
146. 10:21the Syrians or the Aramayans had surrounded the city of Samaria and they'd
147. 10:26laid siege to it. So they had not affirmatively attacked the city, they
148. 10:31just choked the city off. Nothing's going in, nothing's coming out. So whatever, you
149. 10:37know, farms and agrarian facilities that they had outside of the city, the airmenians took
150. 10:43over that, and they were basically starving the Israelites out. It got so bad, you go read
151. 10:49this for yourself, read the preceding chapters, chapter 6 and 5 and 4, that cannibalism had
152. 10:54started in the nation of Israel. To put a kind of fine point on it, the Syrians were having
153. 11:01a successful siege against Samaria. And then you have these lepers pursuant to the truth
154. 11:09of the reality of life and Israel at the time
155. 11:12the lepers were not allowed in the city.
156. 11:14And this is why the lepers said,
157. 11:15listen, if we go in the city,
158. 11:16there's famine in the city.
159. 11:18There's really life going on in there.
160. 11:20So the lepers are sitting outside of the city.
161. 11:22But they said, but if we go over to the Syrians,
162. 11:24the airmans, they're probably gonna kill us too.
163. 11:29So their conclusion is we stay here, we're done.
164. 11:34We go inside the city, we're done.
165. 11:36We go over there, we could be done.
166. 11:37But at least if we go there, we might have a chance to live.
167. 11:43And so their boots were made for walking.
168. 11:46So they pop up, head toward the searing camp,
169. 11:49the airman camp.
170. 11:51And then much to their surprise,
171. 11:52and I'm telling you, go read the entirety of this account,
172. 11:55the entire chapter.
173. 11:56In fact, I'd encourage you to reach out to four, five,
174. 11:58six, seven and eight, all right?
175. 12:01They show up and they find the airman camp
176. 12:07as if everybody ran off immediately.
177. 12:10You know, there's some places in the fire still there.
178. 12:12They had horses still tied up in some places,
179. 12:14left all kind of valuables
180. 12:15and changes of clothes and things of that nature.
181. 12:17And what the lepers were unaware of,
182. 12:19and just as the air mains were unaware of,
183. 12:22the air mains didn't know it was just
184. 12:23for a leper strolling on.
185. 12:25The scripture tells us, and it gives us the view
186. 12:27from the narrate tour, which is Yahweh in this context,
187. 12:30to say yet, the Lord amplified the sounds of their steps.
188. 12:33And often, I've heard people even minister on this text,
189. 12:36and they were talking about amplify the sounds
190. 12:38of their footsteps.
191. 12:39It wasn't merely an amplification
192. 12:40of the sounds of their footsteps.
193. 12:42The Lord provided Dolby's around sound.
194. 12:44You ever been in a movie theater before the movie starts and it starts all around you,
195. 12:50the Lord offered sound that wasn't even there.
196. 12:52You know, just like he can X-Neeh-Hello create.
197. 12:57He can offer sound that wasn't even there.
198. 12:58And he said that he caused a sound to echo in the ears of the Aramaeans that it sounded
199. 13:04like war machines coming in their direction.
200. 13:06Said chariots were coming their way.
201. 13:09At this time period, the possession in the operation of chariots was somewhat like having
202. 13:13tanks, not all nations had chariots, which is why in the air of man they figured, well, you
203. 13:19know the Israelites don't really have chariots like that. So they must have set up an allegiance
204. 13:24with the Hittites and the Egyptians. At the moment where there was utter despair in Samaria,
205. 13:35the Lord used desperate lepers to be the vehicle through which he brought deliverance to the nation
206. 13:42of Israel. Why am I bringing all of this up for one simple reason to remind you of the
207. 13:49God that we serve? To remind you of the God that we serve. You know, C.S. Lewis, many of
208. 13:57you are familiar with him. He came to faith in Christ later in life. Was a former atheist
209. 14:01and was an academic in some places. That's the synonym. Those are synonymous terms, not always.
210. 14:05But he would talk about the division between nature and super nature and say that the belief
211. 14:10and the supernatural really is not that big of a deal.
212. 14:12When you think about the capacity,
213. 14:14you know, to turn water into wine and do other things like that,
214. 14:18all it really is happening is the Lord expediting the very process that He initiated.
215. 14:25By pointing articulating this again, it's to remind you of the God who we serve,
216. 14:29refuse to exclude the reality of who God is and the totality of His person
217. 14:34from your calculus.
218. 14:37Refuse to truncate God,
219. 14:38a living hymn to the humanistic box of either your personal experiences or of what those people
220. 14:45told you he's capable of.
221. 14:47Because the God that we serve is just as omnipotent today as I'm speaking to you as he was the
222. 14:54day that the lepers put on their boots for walking in 2 Kings 7.
223. 15:00A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker not being alert making unwise decisions moving
224. 15:07without a sense of urgency, any and all of these actions in wartime can literally cause
225. 15:12someone to get killed. Psalm 91 is a unique weapon in scripture that addresses many of the
226. 15:18perils in life. Using this weapon daily helps us to be prepared for many of the attacks the devil
227. 15:24may utilize consistently against us. Our encouragement to you is to pray Psalm 91 every single day
228. 15:32over yourself and over your family, because remember,
229. 15:36in the dangerous, crazy world we live in, no one can protect you.
230. 15:39Like the Lord, King Lord,
231. 15:40anointed so fresh with a spirit of grace and mercy
232. 15:43that would empower us to be warrior-minded believers,
233. 15:46who are absolutely every day,
234. 15:49praying Psalm 91, as well as putting other weapons to work,
235. 15:52fruitfully and wisely.
236. 15:54In Jesus' name we do pray, amen.
237. 15:57Shiting light into the darkness,
238. 16:06This is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
239. 16:11Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here.
240. 16:15Guys, as you continue to read that account in 2 Kings Chapter 7,
241. 16:19you'll see the lepers were enjoying the spoils of food and clothing.
242. 16:25It was so funny.
243. 16:26The Bible says they start grabbing stuff and even like some precious,
244. 16:31gold and things and starts trying to stuff it.
245. 16:33You know, let me put some of its weight.
246. 16:34It's like, what is going on here?
247. 16:35And one of them stopped to sit, and we need to go back to Samaria and let everybody know
248. 16:42what God has done here.
249. 16:44And they were immediately convicted as that message went forward and returned to Samaria
250. 16:51to share what God has done.
251. 16:55The good news that God had performed miraculously on their behalf, and it's similar in our day
252. 17:02and age.
253. 17:03It's very easy.
254. 17:04I encourage you, refuse to allow national headlines and things to manipulate you away from living
255. 17:09locally because you can develop a perception based on social media, insta-face gram that
256. 17:15will paint a picture for you that's not reality when you put foot to pavement, you know.
257. 17:21But God is still in the business of opening blind eyes and so the Lord could do it any
258. 17:25way he wants to but he's ordained for his people to go there for proclaim the good news and
259. 17:31to make disciples and we must, we must be about our father's business.
260. 17:35Now as many of you know I've been announcing this this weekend starting actually tomorrow
261. 17:39evening and it will continue on for Saturday and Sunday that we will be in Simsboro, Louisiana
262. 17:46for the family focus weekend.
263. 17:49As I mentioned it starts tomorrow evening the church is simply asked for you to register
264. 17:54so that they can be aware of who all is expected to come, how many people they need to provide
265. 17:59for and prepare for. There is no charge for the event. So the registration is simply letting
266. 18:05the church at Simsboro, First Baptist Simsboro, letting them know that we're coming. That's
267. 18:11what they want to know. Go to FBC Simsboro.org to register. You'll also see the itinerary.
268. 18:19When you go to the website, go to FBC Simsboro.org, click on the events page. You'll see the family
269. 18:24focus weekend right there as well as the itinerary. It also includes a breakout where we'll separate
270. 18:32men and women where my wife will be ministering to the sisters who attend this weekend. It's
271. 18:39going to be an amazing time. That breakout time, that divided session will be Sunday prior to
272. 18:45the corporate worship time. I'd love to see you there. We'd love to meet you there. And
273. 18:50We're going to be talking about focusing on the family, no pun intended praise God for
274. 18:55the work of Dr. Dobson.
275. 18:58But because the family is central to God's plan and so we're going to be navigating that
276. 19:01and discussing that and breaking open the bread of life to anchor us and to catapult us into
277. 19:07executing what God has called us to.
278. 19:08So if you're in the area or willing to come to the area, we'd love to see you there.
279. 19:13All right.
280. 19:15A couple things that are transpiring that I just want to share with you in this first
281. 19:20matter.
282. 19:21really is going to be coupled with two things, from two different sectors of our society,
283. 19:26but they're both encouraging in their own right. So as I'm speaking to you, information
284. 19:31has been shared following the tragic separation of the United Methodist Church's denomination,
285. 19:40which I've said numerous times, I'm not a Methodist, but I'm a member of the Lord's Church, which
286. 19:44is why what's happened there affects me, because I'm a Christian and it affects my family, the
287. 19:50eternal family of God following the refusal of leaders in the United Methodist
288. 19:56Domination in America to heed frankly the counsel of a remnant of United
289. 20:03Methodist in our nation as well as United Methodist from all around the world to
290. 20:07say listen you can't develop a practice that violates God's word you know a wise
291. 20:12brother told me today the Lord gave him a profound question to ask okay is that
292. 20:17your position now please explain to me how you're going to convince God to
293. 20:22embrace your position. Understand that's your opinion but let me know when
294. 20:28you're able to convince God that your position is right and that his position
295. 20:33is wrong. Kind of the answer to that question is pretty obvious and implied
296. 20:38in the question and I would argue that's clearly the violent inspired question
297. 20:41but Romans one tells us that you have some people they really are not
298. 20:45interested in what God says because before you get to man's willingness to
299. 20:49worship creeping things what is the Lord tell us that the possible in Romans 1
300. 20:52that man worshiped himself worshiped himself you know if you have a
301. 21:00religious position and you're never wrong and you're always right you're
302. 21:06probably not worshiping the God of the Bible you're probably worshiping the God
303. 21:08of your own creation well as a result of what what happened the schism in the
304. 21:15United Methodist nomination that followed the schism and the Presbyterian
305. 21:19denomination that led to the division between the PCUSA and the Presbyterian
306. 21:23Church of America, similar divisions and mainline denominations before.
307. 21:28Those led to the establishment of the global Methodist Church, which are
308. 21:35the Methodists who decided that no, no, no, no, we're not going to allow a
309. 21:41deviation from God's standard concerning the qualifications for
310. 21:45eldership in the Lord's Church, the qualifications concerning
311. 21:49sexual ethics, the disqualification of those who are
312. 21:53rebellious in sexuality from serving in the oversight offices
313. 21:59in the Lord's Church, we're not going to go along with that. And
314. 22:01so the global methodists began at about 2022. And in that
315. 22:05short time, reports have shown that the global methodists have
316. 22:10and now swell to over 7,000 member congregations.
317. 22:15Over 7,000.
318. 22:18It's amazing to see that that's happening, you know, because against the trend of what's
319. 22:23popular in our culture, you might say, well, really, you'll have that many people that's
320. 22:27willing, that are willing to stand and not just individuals, but congregations that are willing
321. 22:33to stand firmly on what God has said about marriage, about the fact that God has, is marriage
322. 22:39as a result he alone gets to define what marriage is.
323. 22:44We might call other social arrangements all kinds of words,
324. 22:49but that doesn't mean that they are marriages.
325. 22:52And I don't say that to be mean-spirited or to be condemning to anyone,
326. 22:57but I simply stated as a matter of biblical fact.
327. 23:01It is a matter of biblical fact.
328. 23:04And those who would try to manipulate professing believers in the same,
329. 23:08but isn't God a God of love? Yes, God is love, but he defines love too. You don't get to define love
330. 23:15and the Lord himself, the incarnate Messiah was described to behold him, full full of grace and truth.
331. 23:24You cannot be a person who is a proponent of God's grace if you're willing simultaneously to ignore his truth,
332. 23:32to ignore the truth.
333. 23:34We cannot be it is not loving to indulge people in the passerby people in lies that is not loving
334. 23:42I'm not saying that we need to be obtuse in our delivery. I'm not saying we need to be callous
335. 23:46I'm not saying we need to be belligerent. I'm not saying we should seek to embarrass people
336. 23:50I'm not saying any of those things, but I'm saying when rubber meets road the love of God compels God's people to tell the truth
337. 23:59It's a truth that we not only proclaim. It's a truth that we must live
338. 24:03This is why I talk about the speech and feet consistency.
339. 24:08We must live what we proclaim.
340. 24:11And proclaim what we live.
341. 24:12There's no separation or disagreement between those things.
342. 24:17And we must have the humility and the honesty and the integrity
343. 24:21that if we fall short and when we miss the mark,
344. 24:24we don't get to change what the mark is.
345. 24:27If you play a basketball, if you can't dunk on a 10 foot goal,
346. 24:30you don't get to rewrite the rules to accommodate yourself.
347. 24:32You know what, for me, we're gonna lower the gold at nine feet.
348. 24:34Swacking up.
349. 24:35No, you just grandiale drink Sprite.
350. 24:38You just can execute the dunk at 10 feet.
351. 24:40I guess you gotta go back to the gym,
352. 24:41you gotta work harder.
353. 24:42But you don't get to change the mark.
354. 24:44And this is what often happens
355. 24:45because of the prevalence of fallen mankind
356. 24:49because the Bible tells us all of us
357. 24:50are gonna send it to Father's shorter glory God.
358. 24:52But because of mankind's ubiquitous falling short,
359. 24:54we don't get to reset the standard.
360. 24:56We don't get to reset the standard.
361. 24:58The standard is still the standard.
362. 25:00And we have an obligation to ascribe to the standard
363. 25:02that God establishes.
364. 25:06And so contrary to what people may believe popularly,
365. 25:09and this also is my experience,
366. 25:10that there are people who are hungering and thirsting
367. 25:13for the truth.
368. 25:14And there are people who want to know what the Bible says
369. 25:17on the issues of the day.
370. 25:18They don't want to hide behind some IRS designation
371. 25:24being 501c3 to avoid speaking true to the matters of the day.
372. 25:28They wanna know what does God say about life?
373. 25:30What does God say about financial management?
374. 25:32What does God say about these things?
375. 25:37And so as you're willing to proclaim that,
376. 25:39and I think this is an example of that,
377. 25:41on this particular point,
378. 25:44the global Methodists are exploding
379. 25:46because of their refusal to capitulate
380. 25:49to the spirit of the age.
381. 25:50Then you have a similar phenomenon happening
382. 25:53on the economic front.
383. 25:55Some of you may be familiar with this,
384. 25:58but have you heard of the Human Rights Campaign's
385. 26:00corporate corporate equality index have you ever heard of that?
386. 26:06First, the human rights campaign is the largest, um, I'll call it the sexual
387. 26:10deviancy advocacy group in the United States of America.
388. 26:14And they developed a methodology to frankly bully corporations into embracing
389. 26:20their ideology by simply stating that, well, we are going to assess you in terms
390. 26:26of your willingness to embrace quote unquote equality as they define it,
391. 26:30which is not about equality at all.
392. 26:33It's about exaltation of that,
393. 26:35which is called abominable.
394. 26:37And in order to get,
395. 26:39I'll give you some of the low lights
396. 26:40of their evaluation metrics in order to score 100%
397. 26:47on their equality index,
398. 26:49they require the corporations to express their concession
399. 26:53to things like covering the cost of sex transition surgeries
400. 26:58for staff and their families, publicly advocating
401. 27:02for pro-LGBT legislation, forcing employees to undergo
402. 27:07multiple ideological trainings, opening restrooms
403. 27:11to both sexes, introducing a pronoun, sharing guide,
404. 27:15all of these recruiting employees based on sexual orientation
405. 27:18and things of that nature.
406. 27:20If you do all of those things and will it convince yourself
407. 27:22to do all of those things, then you can get 100% score.
408. 27:27Well, this is again, this is not in the ecclesiastical environment, but this is an
409. 27:31corporate environment. It's interesting to note that as of 20, 26, 65% of HRC's
410. 27:39corporate equality index participants have withdrawn from participating. Some of you may recall,
411. 27:44we talked about it on this show. Track supply was one of the first corporations. They decided,
412. 27:48yeah, you know what, we're not doing this anymore. We're not doing this anymore. John
413. 27:53One deer followed soon after that.
414. 27:55Harley-Davidson followed, then Lowe's and a bunch of other corporations followed as well.
415. 28:0065% of the Fortune 500 companies that participated in responding to the HRC's request for corporate
416. 28:08index compliance and scoring, they just said, no, we're not doing this anymore.
417. 28:12We're not doing this anymore.
418. 28:14We realize, we realize that y'all want us to do this, but our customers, they don't want
419. 28:20that and what organizations like AFA have long said is we don't need corporations to try
420. 28:26to impose its morality preferences on the world. If you make widgets, man, make your widget.
421. 28:33If you John Deere, you make farm equipment, make your farm equipment. I don't need to hear
422. 28:36you lecturing and sermonizing on all things regressive. And so finally, these things are
423. 28:45coming to form. One of the major things that happens is when Bud Light put the confused
424. 28:50young man as their spokesperson in the country like,
425. 28:54we don't want to rock with that.
426. 28:58And so I want you to consider both of these things together.
427. 29:02The global Methodists have refused to capitulate
428. 29:04to the spirit of the age and their denomination is booming.
429. 29:07You've heard much of the conversations
430. 29:11about the reductions in church attendance
431. 29:13and the lessening witness of the church.
432. 29:17Guys, that's not true across the board.
433. 29:19when you drill down into those statistics,
434. 29:23and what you'll find is that places that are standing firm
435. 29:27on the authority of God's word,
436. 29:29to proclaim the full counsel of God's word,
437. 29:32they're seeing growth, which is seeing a reduction in,
438. 29:35is, I hate to say it this way,
439. 29:38but you're seeing a reduction in places
440. 29:40where compromise is the order of the day.
441. 29:45So the encouragement is, simply,
442. 29:48the resolve, just like the lepers displayed
443. 29:51in 2 Kings 7.
444. 29:55We're not trying to be, you know, politicians socially,
445. 29:59you lick your and put it there,
446. 30:01which way is wind blowing?
447. 30:03And then run to try to get ahead with wind blowing.
448. 30:05Oh man, the call to follow Christ is a call to be peculiar.
449. 30:11It really, really, really is.
450. 30:13It's a call to, and I say it this way,
451. 30:16I'm not attempting to provoke fights.
452. 30:19People are like being a cultural warrior.
453. 30:21I'm not trying to be a cultural warrior,
454. 30:24but like I've said many, many times,
455. 30:26there's a difference between being casually curious
456. 30:28about the Lord and being captured by Him.
457. 30:33I'm not trying to be a cultural warrior.
458. 30:34I'm trying to be faithful to the Lord of proclaims
459. 30:36in His word.
460. 30:37And just because social pundits
461. 30:39or politicians may discuss a topic,
462. 30:41that doesn't inherently reclassify the topic
463. 30:43to make it political, this is what God says.
464. 30:48When I'm continuing for the reality
465. 30:50of the sanctity of human life
466. 30:51at its earliest stages, all the way to natural exploration.
467. 30:55I'm not doing that because I wanna make a political point.
468. 30:59No, God commands of his people that you should not murder.
469. 31:03God commands of his people that we have a proper valuing
470. 31:07and have a position concerning life's sanctity
471. 31:10because we have reverence for life's author.
472. 31:13That's why, that's why.
473. 31:17And I'm not trying to make a political point.
474. 31:20And for people to try to persuade you,
475. 31:22I know their their politicians talking publicly. Well the church made these the biggest issues as if they did the biggest sins
476. 31:26No, they didn't
477. 31:27No, they didn't look heterosexual violations of God's answers are just as egregious to the Lord as homosexual violations
478. 31:34But can you tell me anybody that's trying to make a law?
479. 31:37To solemnize heterosexual violations of God standards? No, but they're sure a lot of folks trying to make same-sex marriage
480. 31:43Copistetic
481. 31:44You know there are states around the around the our country once row is overturned
482. 31:49They are attempting to go far beyond even where we're loaded
483. 31:53It's not that the church is trying to make these the most egregious sins
484. 31:56This is simply where public battles over these issues are waging
485. 31:59It doesn't mean we don't care about anything else
486. 32:02So don't allow these people even if they may be
487. 32:05Silver tongue words miss to deceive you and to and to intimidate you to back away from the truth of what God's word is
488. 32:11No, we stand flat-footed on the whole council of God's word
489. 32:14pornography is egregiously sinful.
490. 32:16For an occasion is egregiously sinful.
491. 32:19Adultery is egregiously sinful.
492. 32:20Homosexuality is egregiously sinful.
493. 32:22But you don't see anybody up here trying to make room.
494. 32:25Hey, let's make way.
495. 32:27You know you got to embrace the adulterous.
496. 32:29Nobody does that.
497. 32:30But you have all kind of PR campaigns and all kind of other things doing other things
498. 32:35to try to make homosexuality and transgenderism popular.
499. 32:39It's not that that's the only things that are problematic.
500. 32:42They're just the ones that are being made popular by progressives in our culture.
501. 32:47So don't take debate is what I'm saying.
502. 32:49The God that we serve is the same God that as we walk enemies hear the sounds of chariots
503. 32:54in horsemen.
504. 33:00If we lose this cultural war, we're going to have a hedonistic humanistic society.
505. 33:06Discover the story of the culture warrior Don Wildman and how he went head to head with
506. 33:11Hollywood, playboy, the homosexual agenda, and the Disney Empire.
507. 33:17The movement Don started paved the way for Christians to boldly stand for truth and righteousness
508. 33:22in a hostile culture.
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522. 34:15Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner.
523. 34:16Abraham Hamilton the third here man we're already in the final segment it's
524. 34:20interesting to see how these things are unfolding I know we have some people on
525. 34:25our audience who live in the Chicago area and it's it's very interesting
526. 34:31because the historic home of the NFL football team of Chicago Bears has been
527. 34:35soldier field for quite some time and they had been underway with planning and
528. 34:40considerations for a new stadium in what I understand to be the Arlington village
529. 34:46of Illinois. However, because of the reality of what politics is like in
530. 34:53Chicago land and in Illinois more broadly, the information was revealed today that
531. 35:00the Indiana House of Representatives and its Governor Mike Braun have started the
532. 35:06process for constructing a new stadium about 20 some odd miles, 23, 25 miles away
533. 35:14from Chicago across the state line in to Hammond, Indiana, according to the information that
534. 35:24was released from the Governor Mike Braun and the Indiana House representative speaker,
535. 35:31Todd Huston, as well as Senator Ryan Mishler that some of the things, excuse me, that was
536. 35:38attractive to the Chicago NFL franchise were, y'all, some of you already know where we're
537. 35:44The more favorable tax proposition for the team,
538. 35:51but also for the team's players,
539. 35:53if their home was across state lines
540. 35:56over into neighboring Indiana.
541. 35:59And it's not surprising, we've talked about on this program,
542. 36:04how the consistent internal migration
543. 36:08in our nation of Americans moving from one state to the next,
544. 36:11that the states with the largest Exodus numbers are states
545. 36:15that happen to be blue states with overwhelming taxation,
546. 36:18some of the most profound beneficiaries
547. 36:22of this migration in terms of population.
548. 36:23And I guess you may wanna say,
549. 36:25well, is it truly beneficial?
550. 36:26Because you got a lot of people, for example,
551. 36:28leaving New York and then moving into Florida,
552. 36:32but they bring their New York preferences
553. 36:34with them into Florida.
554. 36:35It is a really a benefit.
555. 36:37But you have states like Texas that are swelling
556. 36:41in population, Florida that are swelling in population,
557. 36:43Tennessee, that is swelling with population,
558. 36:45and somebody might want to remind me,
559. 36:46what is it that those, one of the things
560. 36:48those three states have in common?
561. 36:49Yeah, that's right, no state income tax.
562. 36:51Oh, see if that people tend to vote
563. 36:54with their feet after they vote with their wallets.
564. 36:59And it's a similar thing that's happening.
565. 37:02We talked about how the Kansas City Chiefs
566. 37:06are seemingly making a move in a similar fashion,
567. 37:09but the Chicago Bears,
568. 37:11This is much to this day of Chicago's Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor Pritzker,
569. 37:17JB Pritzker, but it seems like the Chicago Bears may be now moving to Hammond, Indiana.
570. 37:25So that is an interesting phenomenon from what I understand.
571. 37:29They're going to keep the name, but it's just 20 miles away and you have a more favorable
572. 37:34tax situation, a more favorable stadium construction phenomenon.
573. 37:39And I said Arlington, I meant Arlington Heights, the Arlington Heights Village in Illinois.
574. 37:43That's where they were thinking about the bears relocating to.
575. 37:46But it seems like they may be going over to Indiana, so that's just something to consider.
576. 37:52Now, the next story I want to talk about, and this is just, I usually refer to regressive
577. 38:02ism as regressive, because the fact is that regressive ism is a bipartisan institution.
578. 38:08But there is no equivocation in terms of formal platform planks between parties and things
579. 38:13of that nature.
580. 38:15But as many of you might know, there's a pretty significant contested primary election in the
581. 38:21state of Texas for the U.S. Senate.
582. 38:24And on the Democrat side, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is running for the Senate, and she's
583. 38:29running against the state legislator, James Tallarico in the state.
584. 38:34And it's interesting how this race is unfolding.
585. 38:38And I won't go into a bunch of details because some of you know, I did an entire show one
586. 38:42time on the blasphemous arguments that Talarico made concerning the scripture.
587. 38:47And I was quite animated in that show because of the egregious reality of when people lie
588. 38:54on a Lord, twisting the Lord's word, which the Lord warned us about, about their false
589. 38:58brethren who pervert the grace of God into the civiousness.
590. 39:03And I said very plainly, James Chalereco is one of those people.
591. 39:05And I won't back away from that because that is what I believe.
592. 39:09That's what I see and what he's endeavoring to do.
593. 39:12That being said, he was scheduled to do an interview with James Colbert.
594. 39:17And at the last minute, James Colbert and his team decided not to air the interview on television,
595. 39:25but to only post an interview on CBS's YouTube channel.
596. 39:29And it's so sad, man.
597. 39:31It's like these people lie like it's nothing.
598. 39:36So immediately thereafter, James Tallarico was speaking
599. 39:40at a campaign rally, a campaign event.
600. 39:44And he literally said that quote,
601. 39:46the FCC colluded with corporate media executives
602. 39:50to keep his interview with Stephen Colbert from airing.
603. 39:54So he's arguing that the FCC,
604. 39:57with the Trump appointed chairman Brendan Carr,
605. 40:00colluded with CBS's executives to keep the show off of the air.
606. 40:07Then Stephen Colbert said the exact same thing
607. 40:11to try to make it seem like it's a Trump administration having
608. 40:14anything to do with this.
609. 40:16When the facts are, and Jasmine Crockett confirmed this,
610. 40:20the reality is the Trump administration
611. 40:22had nothing to do with this.
612. 40:26See what happened was CBS was made aware of an FGC
613. 40:34rule that when you have a broadcast network, the FCC regulations require broadcast networks
614. 40:40whenever you have candidates for elective office on your show, you have an obligation to allow
615. 40:46other candidates to have the exact same time and access as the previous candidate so as to avoid
616. 40:53the network being deemed with providing an in-kind donation if you will to the preference of one
617. 41:01candidate versus another. So Stephen Colbert and James
618. 41:07Alarico fled a lot because what really happened in truth is
619. 41:13that Stephen Colbert did not want to interview Jasmine Crockett.
620. 41:20That's what happened. Stephen Colbert did not want to give
621. 41:24Jasmine Crockett time on the show. So he decided he decided.
622. 41:32Nah, we're going to put this interview on YouTube because we
623. 41:34don't want to have that have Jasmine Crockett on network television. Now you heard the expression
624. 41:40a lot we're running around the world twice before the truth even can be in the beginning
625. 41:43to catch up. Tala Rico's claims and Colbert's claims circled the globe. Oh, the Trump administration
626. 41:50colluded with CBS. When the truth was and Jasmine Crockett confirmed this as self because she
627. 41:56learned the exact same thing that Tala Rico and Colbert and CBS all knew that the Trump
628. 42:02administration had nothing to do with CBS decided to do with their airwaves. It was Stephen
629. 42:05Colbert himself who decided, no, I don't want to have Jasmine Crockett on air.
630. 42:12So, y'all know, I'm not one to try to give people, I don't support electoral advice, but
631. 42:23Jasmine Crockett might want to send a nice little letter to CVS demanding at a minimum
632. 42:31to be able to have an interview aired on their YouTube channel at a minimum.
633. 42:37Now I know that's not governed by the FCC, but she could turn it, again,
634. 42:42I'm not trying to give an electoral campaign advice, but she could certainly turn it into an issue
635. 42:48if the Colbert team and CBS refused to even allow her to be interviewed by YouTube.
636. 42:55And the reason why there's a difference is because FCC generally has different rules
637. 43:01and regulations versus internet, you know, you might recall there was an FCC long before
638. 43:05there was an internet.
639. 43:06The FCC regulations concerning streaming and those kind of things are not identical to broadcast
640. 43:13airwaves just yet.
641. 43:15So I would say, you know, representative Crockett, you got the information and I'm sharing this
642. 43:21with you guys so you can be aware to be fortified and prepared to deal with the lies, you know,
643. 43:30you know the whole Trump's your Andrew and syndrome syndrome phenomenon and no matter what the issue is it's Trump's fault
644. 43:37And if they can find a way to make a trumps fault
645. 43:39There are a lot of people that are willing to entertain that as the reasoning for why things happen in this scenario
646. 43:45The facts are the facts are
647. 43:47Nobody colluded to keep them from there in the James Telerico interview. It was Stephen Colbert who decided now
648. 43:53We don't want to put that on TV because then I might have an obligation
649. 43:56to do something else that I don't really want to do.
650. 44:01Because it gives you an idea,
651. 44:03he wants to try to amplify Tala Rico.
652. 44:06That's the reality what it is,
653. 44:08and as I understand it, currently he's behind in the polls.
654. 44:10So he's really trying to do his,
655. 44:12what apparently is the person he supports,
656. 44:13trying to do him a solid by giving him a platform
657. 44:16and doesn't want to give his opponents,
658. 44:17don't want to give Tala Rico opponents a similar platform.
659. 44:20So that's just a little bit of the fact
660. 44:21of the information behind the scenes.
661. 44:23Now, almost a year ago today, President Trump
662. 44:27withdrew our nation from the World Health Organization.
663. 44:31And this is something that I've been calling for
664. 44:32for quite some time.
665. 44:33Like, what's the point of us being a part of the
666. 44:35World Health Organization, when the United Nations
667. 44:38World Health Organization seems to like to take
668. 44:40American money, but to not aid and support
669. 44:44the American citizens?
670. 44:45Well, following the removal of our nation from the World
671. 44:50Health Organization, Trump Administration
672. 44:53as announced with Secretary of Health, Bobby Kennedy's,
673. 45:01announcing today that the money that we used to spend
674. 45:04on the World Health Organization,
675. 45:06that we're now gonna just use our own
676. 45:08Health and Human Services Department
677. 45:10to keep track of what's happening in terms of threats,
678. 45:15globally and things of that nature
679. 45:16using our own resources.
680. 45:18And this is something that's almost like,
681. 45:20why haven't we been doing this before?
682. 45:22Why haven't we been doing this before?
683. 45:25And President Trump cited as one of the major impetus
684. 45:29for doing this was the horrible way
685. 45:32the World Health Organization handled the Schmoe bit debacle.
686. 45:37How the World Health Organization was one of the foremost,
687. 45:41six feet social distance, do all of these different things.
688. 45:44And behind the scenes, they had documentation
689. 45:46where they said they knew that didn't do anything,
690. 45:49where they acknowledged that a lot of the initiatives that they were announcing
691. 45:54from the United Nations and from the who that they really were seeing whether
692. 45:59or not they could get widespread compliance.
693. 46:04These compliance, those of you who listened to this show during the responses
694. 46:10to schmovin and things of that nature, you'll recall that I pulled the documents.
695. 46:14I posted them on our show notes and showed you things of that nature.
696. 46:18I showed you how at the exact same time our own media was talking about Ivermectin being
697. 46:24a horse doermer that I showed you to documents as to how we require migrants to our country
698. 46:29to take a battery of medications and one of them was Ivermectin.
699. 46:36So how can we at the exact same time where our own government requires new arrivals in
700. 46:40our country to take Ivermectin and also have a stasis to where we would allow the World
701. 46:44health organization and others to to denigrate the use of a Nobel
702. 46:50priest, Nobel Peace Prize winning medication that had been used
703. 46:53and have used safely for years. Certainly, there are animal
704. 46:58applications, but there are human applications that are not
705. 47:00horse dorm, you know what I'm saying? So I am grateful for the
706. 47:07Trump administration's leadership on this front. And
707. 47:10frankly, we need to see more expansion. We we aired some of
708. 47:14the clips from the Geneva summit from the United Nations where Masi Alinajah talked about the
709. 47:21Iranian activists that talked about, she literally said the United Nations is a sad joke because
710. 47:29they were giving safe harbor and safe passage to the people who were murdering Iranian protesters
711. 47:35and the World Health Organization is an offshoot of the United Nations.
712. 47:39So I thought you might want to know that, and one of the things President Trump pointed
713. 47:44out, so you know it's kind of unfair because we paid upwards of $500 million a year to the
714. 47:49World Health Organization and actually that number is closer to like $638 million annually
715. 47:54in China paid something like $39 million yet we had equal standing before the world. Sometimes
716. 48:00somebody doesn't seem right. You know, we get involved, our nation gets involved with these
717. 48:05international bodies and somehow we end up paying more money than anybody else. I want to figure
718. 48:11How that happens.
719. 48:12How that happens.
720. 48:13And when I say we, I'm talking about our nation using American taxpayer dollars to do these
721. 48:18things.
722. 48:19And then President Trump said, and then the Chinese have a population far larger than an
723. 48:23hour.
724. 48:24So how are they paying 39 million?
725. 48:25And we're paying up with some 400 million every year.
726. 48:29That math doesn't seem to add up.
727. 48:30It doesn't seem to add up.
728. 48:33Now while I am grateful for that, I want to ask you to continue to pray for our nation
729. 48:37because I continue to make the point that much of the things domestically that the Trump
730. 48:41Administration is accomplishing, they're accomplishing it via executive action, via executive orders.
731. 48:47And as we've seen, just as recently as the transition from the first Trump administration
732. 48:54to the ice cream man years, what is done with executive order can be immediately undone
733. 49:02with the subsequent executive order.
734. 49:05In order to change the trajectory of our nation, in terms of what is happening on the policy front,
735. 49:12We need things to be accomplished and executed at the congressional level.
736. 49:16This is why the upcoming midterms are extremely important.
737. 49:22Because the midterms will determine whether or not there will be an opportunity to make
738. 49:27permanent some of the executive action that has been done currently by the Trump administration
739. 49:31or whether or not we're going to spend the next two years with progressives doing a rope
740. 49:35dope in Capitol Hill.
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